10 Movie Robots We Love to Hate

Robots. They start off as innocuous discs that vacuum the carpet while giving the cat a joyride, and next thing you know they're all, "Kill! Kill! Kill!" Before Prometheus and its morally questionable android debut tomorrow, we looked at some of our favorite evil movie robots. And before you start writing angry letters, we're counting HAL 9000 as a computer, not a robot. (Warning: Spoilers ahead.)

10 Movie Robots We Love to Hate

10 Movie Robots We Love to Hate

This Friday, Ridley Scott, Damon Lindelof, and these cool floating balls with red lasers that create awesome 3D maps will take you to the heavens in search of our creators in Prometheus.

In the film, as the crew lies in cryogenic stasis for two years, an android named David looks after the ship. As played by Michael Fassbender, he's fastidious, observant, surprisingly blonde, and, maybe, evil. (Spoiler alert! Even after seeing the movie I can't tell you exactly what's up with him.) I can say, however, that it is a remarkable performance and it brings to mind one of sci-fi cinema's great traditions—the evil robot.

10. The Gunslinger, Westworld

10. The Gunslinger, Westworld

Michael Crichton's ridiculous but oh-so-enjoyable 1973 romp presents a Disney-esque theme park for grownups where the animatronics are indistinguishable from real people. You can go to Romanworld, Medievalworld or (aha!) Westworld and satisfy your bloodlust in armed combat or your ordinary lust in other ways. (Bonus tip: that's Star Trek's Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as the Madam of the wild west bordello.)

A computer virus causes the robots to rebel, however, and leads Yul Brynner's stoic Gunslinger and try to shoot down the last remaining humans. (Which, for reasons too complex to get into, include the poor-man's Dustin Hoffman, Richard Benjamin.) Brynner's Gunslinger looks like an exact replica of his character from The Magnificent Seven, so much so that I'm surprised there wasn't a lawsuit. He exudes badass and never breaks a sweat. Westworld also features some terrific robo-POV shots that were quite groundbreaking for their time.